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Marcus Garvey
Marcus was a leader of a mass movement called Pan-Africanism. He also founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). -
The Great Migration
When African americans looked to the north for Jobs, they did this hoping to find the freedom and economic opportunities that wasn't available for them in the South. -
The 18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment was completed ratified on January 16th, 1919. This amendment set alcohol as illegal and banned the sale of alcoholic beverages. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was the name given to the songwriters of New York City who created the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The name originally referring to a specific place (West 28th Street). -
Jazz Music
By 1920, New Orleanian jazz musicians spent years spreading the "New Orleans sound." This era was a new sound of music where people danced and sung to jazz music. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same laws as plants and animals. Unlike Darwin's Theory where that is the belief of Human Evolution. Darwinism sees people who are lower class will be lower and the upper class will be higher. -
Harlem Renaissance
A new era in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art, music and literature began to spread. -
1st Red Scare
The United States feared immigrants, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist ideology. The fear of communism, known as the Red Scare, led to a national hunt for suspected communist supporters, which was also known as McCarthyism. -
Frances Willard
Frances was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence brought the 18th and 19th amendment to be and fought for women's rights. She also founded the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1873. -
Warren G. Harding's "Return to Normalcy"
Warren Harding was the 29th U.S. President. Return to normalcy was a return to the way of life before World War I slogan. A speech created by Warren explaining how life was better and easier before World War I. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. -
Langston Hughes
Langston was a famous American poet. In 1924, Langston moved to Washington, D.C. and notices the poet Vachel Lindsay dining in the restaurant. He slips some of his poems on Lindsay's table and she puts the young poet in touch with editors at Knopf. -
Clarence Darrow
Famous lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible. This famous lawyer was known for defending significant cases and solving court issues. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools. Scopes ended up losing the case and having to pay $100. -
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charles was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean nonstop. Others have flew across the Atlantic, but Charles did it nonstop and took a total of 33 hours. And he was only 25 years old when he landed in Paris in 1927. -
The Great Depression
The period from 1929 to 1941 in which the economy dropped and there was very little money and people searching for jobs. Most people who had their money in the bank never got it back due to Black Tuesday. -
Stock Market Crash
Also known as, "Black Tuesday" the Stock Market Crash was a decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 is when things were starting to get worse. The market went into a disaster. Black Monday was followed by Black Tuesday, in which stock prices collapsed completely. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a long period of bad dust storms that damaged the agriculture and caused severe drought. What also caused it was farmers destroying the grass that held soil. -
The New Deal
A series of organizations created by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. -
Eleanor Roosevelt
FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. She was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women. -
20th Amendment
This amendment elects a vice president who takes over when the current presidents' term ends or if the president passes. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd US President. He created the New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII. A very great president but congress believed he had too much power and he served about 3 terms. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
Relief - the term used to describe the first stages of the new deal. Recovery - closing the banks would be an example of this used during the new deal. Reform - the "R" word used to describe the new deal programs designed to make sure that the nation would never experience something terrible in the future again. -
The 21st Amendment
Since amendments cannot be erased, this amendment repealed the 18th amendment. Now alcohol became legal again and it was being sold in the U.S. -
1936 Summer Olympics
This was an international multi-sport event held in Berlin, Germany. With over 3,900 participants from many different countries and Hitler being in charge, many countries tried to boycott the game.
